would focus on financial poverty: people living in households with economic resources below the level used by Eurostat (60 …% of the median in the Member State), with this being accompanied by a measure of child poverty. Social investment in … not a complete substitute for social spending. The European countries which perform best in terms of reducing poverty tend …

inequality and increased poverty. We provide an early assessment of whether (and to what extent) this is the case. More …

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … depth of poverty would have increased under the first New Labour government, had important reforms like the extensions of … income support and tax credits not been implemented. These reforms have also contributed to substantially reduce poverty …

counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the …

household incomes and in the prevention of child poverty across Europe. In one group of countries family benefits appear to have … a significant effect on the protection of children from financial poverty. The UK and the Netherlands are both members … explain the very different level of child poverty in the two countries. We also explore the effect of “swapping” child benefit …

redistributive objectives and in reducing poverty. For the analysis we use the tax/benefit micro-simulation model EUROMOD. Due to the … groups at risk of poverty. In the period from 2003 to 2005 the tax reform 2004/05 was introduced and contributions to health … insurance were raised. We find that the measures had no significant impact on poverty and income distribution; however, in total …

, and on the child poverty rate. A static microsimulation model specifically designed for the purposes of comparative fiscal … cent of their income from transfers in all countries with child poverty rates lower than 10 pr cent. But the proportion is … much lower, 20 per cent to 30 per cent, in countries with higher child poverty rates. Further, in many high child poverty …

Proponents of a basic income (BI) claim that it could bring significant reductions in financial poverty, on top of many … comparative two-country setting, we show that the potential poverty-reducing impact of BI strongly depends on exactly how and …-economic context in which it is introduced. Some versions of BI could potentially help to reduce poverty but always at a significant …